After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and by Paolo Heywood

Queer activism and anthropology are either essentially taken with the idea that of distinction. but they're so in essentially alternative ways. The Italian queer activists during this ebook price distinction as anything that has to be produced, towards the id politics they locate round them. Conversely, anthropologists locate distinction on the planet round them, and search to supply an identification among anthropological idea and the ethnographic fabric it elucidates. This publication describes difficulties confronted by means of an activist 'politics of difference', and concerns in regards to the id of anthropological mirrored image itself – connecting conceptions of distinction when at the same time protecting them apart.

Queer survivors piece jointly the clues to find their very own lives! harmful households: Queer Writing on Surviving is going past the restoration narrative to create a brand new queer literature of research, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six tales light up the truth of becoming up in worry, suffering to rebuild lives broken by means of sexual, actual, and/or emotional abuse.

Discover the emotions of guys towards different males with no the pigeonholing present in phrases like “gay” and “straight”! Male to Male: Sexual Feeling around the limitations of id starts off with the proof that almost all experiences on male sexuality have ignored--the same-sex emotions of fellows whose identities are heterosexual.

This ebook examines the surge of queer functionality produced throughout eire because the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger within the mid-1990s, as much as the passing of the wedding Equality referendum within the Republic in 2015.